A mum has made £5,000 reselling car boot sale clothes - including hunting out a designer Mulberry bag worth £360 for 30p.
Emily Zervakis, from Eastbourne, started her side hustle after clearing out clothes from her home and making £350 in profit selling them online.
After seeing how easy it was to make some cash from reselling, the 38-year-old decided to reinvest the £350 buying clothing from car boot sales and charity shops.
Emily has found items such as a Mulberry bag for 30p and is selling it on for £360, and a Jellycat plush toy for £1.50 which she resold for £75.
Over the last ten months she has spent £2,500 and made £5,000 - which she has reinvested back into her side hustle.
Emily, who owns her own jewellery business, said: "I love going charity shopping. It's my happy place. I've always loved second-hand. You can find the most unique pieces.
"I've spent £2,500 and I'm at £5,000. I still have tonnes of stock to sell."
Emily grew up going to car boot sales with her mum and the money they made would go towards their family holidays.
Second-hand lover Emily decided to have a clear out this January and sold on the clothes and furniture on Vinted and Facebook Marketplace.
She said: "I was just selling stuff around the house. I made £350 between January and February. I thought 'I'm going to see if I can grow this'."
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Emily started spending time hunting through charity shops, jumble sales, car boot sales and Vinted to see what she could find.
At first she picked out the cheapest items to work out what would sell on and gradually saw her profits grow.
She said: "Now I look for expensive labels - I can tell by the feel.
"I look for Joseph Ribkoff. Mountain t-shirts sell well. I get them at the boot sale and they sell for £25 to £30 each."
She found an Alexander Wang bag in a charity shop for £3 and is selling it for £110.
Emily said: "I've found so many awesome bits.
"I go to boot sales and get clothes for 80p and sell them for £8 to £10.
"It's small wins and big wins."
Emily sells her finds on across Vinted, Ebay and Depop and makes sure she is constantly listing.
She has had to move around her living room to make space for her stock.
Emily said: "I list items while watching telly.
"You need to be consistent.
"You need to list daily."
Emily is also challenging herself to take £3 and make it into £1,000 - and is so far at £600.
Emily said her husband, Kacan, 40, a designer, is super supportive of her new side hustle and their two boys - aged eight and four - love finding out how much she makes from each sale.
She said: "They are learning about it as well."
Emily's tips:
- Start small at a car boot sale and rummage through a pile of clothes and spend £10 on items from places such as Next and M&S - "you'll see it grow"
- List consistently
- Take good photos and write a good description
- Look for unique items
- Check what similar items are selling for on Ebay and Vinted
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